Thursday, May 7, 2015

1,600 IRS employees willfully evaded taxes; most were not fired...

Nearly 1,600 IRS workers were found to have willfully
evaded taxes over a 10-year period, including some who were responsible
for enforcing the nation’s tax laws, a government watchdog said
Wednesday.
It’s a small percentage of the tax agency’s employees — about 160 workers a year out of a workforce of 85,000.
A new report by the agency’s inspector general said most were not
fired, even though a 1998 law calls for terminations when IRS workers
willfully don’t pay their taxes. The penalty must be waived by the IRS
commissioner.Keep on reading…